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My fifth book is from one of Norway´s neighbour countries, Denmark. Vintereventyr or Winter Tales by Karen Blixen. I chose the book simply because it was one I already had in my shelves, in Norwegian, and after reading all the pervious ones, and probably most of the coming ones, in English, it felt good to rest a little in my mother tongue.
Karen Blixen, or Isak Dinesen, which is the name she often used when she wrote, is best known for her Out of Africa, and more people have seen the film than read the book I guess. I have the book, but wanted to read something else by this amazing writer, and so I ended up with Vintereventyr.
The book consists of eleven different short stories, all of them, though very different, tell the tales of humans and their fate. I have read the book in a couple of days only, but will not advice you to do the same if you decide to read it. Every one of the eleven tales need at least one day of its own, to get deeper into the lives we meet, to try to understand the fates and the choices Blixen present for us. 11 tales presented in a mixture of realism and fables, every tale focusing on the different shades which colours humans. Karen Blixen´s art of storytelling is based on the old oral masters, as we know them from 1001 Nights all the way up to H.C.Andersen.
A masterpiece.
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